On Saturday 27 November 2004 19:45, Thomas Otto wrote:
> Hi,
>> Seeing how e.g. the thread "Patch 3339 Out" became somewhat overlong and
> parted into several subthreads, some totally unrelated to the parent, I
> just wanted to remind you that when you want to start a new subject you
> shouldn't just hit "Reply" to a randomly selected message and change the
> topic since the 'In-Reply-To:' and 'References:' headers will remain and
> the "new" message will show up as a reply to this orignally selected one
> in the threaded view (usually used for mailinglists) which decent
> emailreaders support.
Mutt's break-thread function is quite handy for dealing with this kind of
thing. I don't know if any other mail programmes have a similar function,
but it would be useful. I agree it would be better if it weren't needed
though.
--
Ian.
EOM